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Standing before thousands of screaming geeks at this weekend's 2006 San Diego Comic Con International, Quentin Tarantino announced the cast "Death Proof," one-half of a double-feature collaborative project entitled "Grindhouse" that he'll be working on with Austin director Robert Rodriquez.
From wiki:
A "grindhouse" is an American term for a theater that showed exploitation films; it is also used as an adjective to describe the genre of films that played in such theatres. While just about any film that featured excessive sex or violence was typically shown at a grindhouse, the grindhouse genre encompasses films that were unacceptable by the terms of the mainstream: especially brutally violent films, films with bizarre or perverse plot points, etc. Frequent fare for such theatres were low-budget Chinese and Japanese movies, specifically kung-fu and samurai movies, which were known for being exceptionally bloody.
Drawing from 70s exploitation films and the stuff that QT Fests are made of, "Death Proof" will be a slasher flick starring Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan, Marley Shelton ("Sin City"), and several TV drama actors. "Planet Terror," Rodriquez's zombie film and the other half of "Grindhouse," has a sweet cast that includes Naveen Andrews (Sayid from ABC's Lost), Josh Brolin, Michael Biehn, Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, Michael Parks, and Freddy Rodriquez (Six Feet Under)
Both films will be shot in Austin; production on "Planet Terror" has already begun, while "Death Proof" is scheduled to begin shooting sometime next month.
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